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The Laredo Border Patrol’s Violent History
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The Laredo Border Patrol committed acts of violence, including shooting up the police station, in 1927. They also purged Mexican American police officers as part of their immigrant smuggling investigations.
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The use of gun control laws to discriminate against armed black people has been prevalent in Texas.
29:34 - 32:23 (02:49)
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The use of gun control laws to discriminate against armed black people has been prevalent in Texas. In some cases, the same laws were also used to suppress white vigilantes, as observed in Laredo, a Mexican town controlled by non-white police, during Clifford Perkins’ trip to the area.
ChapterThe Laredo Border Patrol’s Violent History
EpisodePart One: Harlon Carter: the Man Who Militarized the Cops and the NRA
PodcastBehind the Bastards
In 1927, border patrol officers in Laredo, Texas were charged with immigrant smuggling and several officers spent half an hour circling and shooting up the police station, leading to tension between the border patrol station and the local community.
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In 1927, border patrol officers in Laredo, Texas were charged with immigrant smuggling and several officers spent half an hour circling and shooting up the police station, leading to tension between the border patrol station and the local community. Detailing former Texas Rangers to Laredo was a strategy used to divorce the border patrol station from the local Mexican American political elite, which resulted in the purging of Mexican American police officers.